Living History Weekends

How often do you get to take a selfie with a Revolutionary War soldier? Opportunities abound at the New-York Historical Society, whose Living History Weekends welcome costumed re-enactors to the society’s DiMenna Children’s History Museum. On Saturday, members of the Living History Guild will represent the Fourth New York Regiment, greeting young visitors and lending them 1700s-style clothes and hats for photos. On Sunday, re-enactors will portray the Sheldon’s Horse, Second Continental Light Dragoons, a cavalry unit whose members were Washington’s personal bodyguards. They will perform exercises and lead patriotic children in military drills. Actors playing a surgeon and a spymaster will also discuss their 18th-century careers.